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  • Summary: The debut full-length release for the psychedelic rock band that includes Dethscalator's Dan Chandler, Stuart Bell, Mugstar's Jason Stoll, Part Chimp's Tim Cedar, Dead Neanderthals' Colin Webster and Earth's Jodie Cox was produced by Joel Eaton.
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  1. Jan 10, 2017
    90
    This [‘I am William Corder’], the pinnacle of a truly masterful, sonic annihilation of a record, is a murder ballad not in the melodramatic gothic tradition, but something else, something transcendent, and like the rest of the record something terrifyingly transfixing.
  2. 85
    How refreshing it is to hear the sound of disaffection and fury channelled into music as cathartic and primal as this, rather than into either the kind of disorientated rhetoric that dogs our politics or the cowardly, disengaged pap which hogs the pop charts.
  3. Jan 10, 2017
    80
    You come through it all not with a standard sense of enjoyment; playing it loud, you really feel like you’ve been through the wringer. But it’s the way that Sex Swing blend textures of psych, krautrock, doom, and goth that rewards those who are prepared to get their ears mangled.
  4. Mojo
    Jan 10, 2017
    60
    From the spooked synth attack of hellish 12-minute opener A Natural Satellite inwards, they do little to dispel those fears, robust drums and dirty organs underscoring the swaggering menace of Grace Jones and The Murder of Maria Marten. [Jan 2017, p.98]
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